In a now-deleted tweet captured by The Shade Room, Lovato wrote back: "Wale just salty I never replied to his desperate tweets years ago."

"Still ain't gon disrespect you...still praying for you Demi. Glad u seen my old tweets. Hopefully you seen the ones providing comfort and prayer when you were down. I don't kick people when they down. Go queen," Wale responded.

"A lot of people were sending you love light, prayers etc," he also tweeted. "When people were making jokes about u at a rough time. A lot of people. Bless up."

Lovato later clarified her comments in an Instagram story
, writing that she "wasn't laughing at anyone getting deported."

Rather, she said she was laughing about the fact that no one knew 21 Savage was British.

"The meme I posted/was talking about was of him writing with a feather pen," she wrote. "Sorry if I offended anyone."